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In your composition class, the instructor asks you to show how the modes of narration and description are alike and how they are different.
In a political science class, you are asked to give your judgment of the good points of the electoral college system while also acknowledging limitations.
Your Study Skills instructor would like for you to point out differences between your study habits now and your study habits at the beginning of the semester.
In an algebra class, the professor asks you to give the meaning of the term “slope.”
In a literature class, the professor asks students to depict in detail the setting of the novel Sula by giving particular details.
A aerospace instructor asks students to give a detailed analysis (both pros and cons) of the reasons NASA was faced by problems during the 1980’s.
Your study skills instructor asks you to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the Label in the Margin system for reading textbooks.
Your political science professor asks you to discuss the steps that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon and what the consequences were for the Republican party.
Your nursing professor asks you to give concrete illustrations of the effects of smoking on human health.
Your Physical Fitness teacher would like for you to give an example to show the link between aerobic conditioning and good health.
An education professor wants you to prove or give reasons why teachers should use the “whole language” method of teaching reading.
Your psychology professor wants you to demonstrate how Freud’s theories of childhood development interconnect with Jung’s theories.
Your biology professor asks you to organize and bring together the main points regarding the process of photosynthesis.
Your history professor wants you to use facts to prove that the South was technologically unprepared to win the Civil War.
Your music history professor asks you to briefly discuss the main composers of the Jazz Age from beginning to end.
Email: chopper@mtsu.edu
Home Page: http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl
Other information: Slides from Practicing College Study Skills by Carolyn Hopper Houghton Mifflin, 1998
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